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How could I replace the Phone/contacts? Give instructions, get $40

[Congrats, the hater made me raise the price from $20, to $40] - Goal is to replace Sense dialer with stock dialer/calllog/contacts from an AOSP 2.1 rom.
I hate SenseUI. Not Really, but the way the dialer/contacts work, is just one of my biggest problems with Sense.
So, when I get this phone, my only reason to root, is if I can replace my default phone/contacts APK.
I haven't used a Sense rom on any phone for over an hour, simply because I can NOT stand the dialer/call log and such.
Any suggestions? Please?
Im familiar with ADB, and will have no problems/regrets/worries about rooting, as I treat my phones like a first born, and dont let them get near harm.
But if there is no real hope for me replacing the Call Log/ Dialer/ Contacts part, with the style from 2.1 N1, I might as well go get my deposit back.
Anyone? First person with step for steps gets $40 donated/paypal'd/ whatever works for you
thanks for not flaming, im sure others will be pleased if this information is made simple-and-clear.

docsparks said:
I hate SenseUI. Not Really, but the way the dialer/contacts work, is just one of my biggest problems with Sense.
So, when I get this phone, my only reason to root, is if I can replace my default phone/contacts APK.
I haven't used a Sense rom on any phone for over an hour, simply because I can NOT stand the dialer/call log and such.
Any suggestions? Please?
Im familiar with ADB, and will have no problems/regrets/worries about rooting, as I treat my phones like a first born, and dont let them get near harm.
But if there is no real hope for me replacing the Call Log/ Dialer/ Contacts part, with the style from 2.1 N1, I might as well go get my deposit back.
Anyone? First person with step for steps gets $10 donated/paypal'd/ whatever works for you
thanks for not flaming, im sure others will be pleased if this information is made simple-and-clear.
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Kinda curious if LauncherPro will function correctly aswell, but i can atleast live with the Sense Launcher/drawer, but would be way happier knowing in advance that I could run some form.. Helix1/2, LauncherPro, ADW, etc.
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well first off you gotta root it first, after that i'm not sure.
Edit: i'm retarded, gotta read the title of stuff before I post.

Ha. I woke up to the sweet sound of my email sound on my N1, hoping someone responded, read it.. came to the computer, to see you corrected yourself, and I dont have to be bitter.
Yes. I will root, as long as I know I can do this.
Thanks again though. .
..4 more hours.. till Tmobile can suck it.

docsparks said:
Ha. I woke up to the sweet sound of my email sound on my N1, hoping someone responded, read it.. came to the computer, to see you corrected yourself, and I dont have to be bitter.
Yes. I will root, as long as I know I can do this.
Thanks again though. .
..4 more hours.. till Tmobile can suck it.
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Sorry your best bet is to wait till the cusom roms start coming out, senseUI stuff will go away real fast then. But I agree with you, i'm not a fan of it either.

The problem with Sense UI is the deepness of how it is built into the system. Technically you could push an ASOP .apk of Contacts, but you would more than likely still default back to the Sense version anyway.
Your best bet is waiting on a full ASOP or ASOP-esque build that will remove Sense for the most part. $10 dollars please!

Come on.. there isnt a way I cant also have my contacts/phone dialer/call log as a seperate APK and not over-write the sense stuff? like just have both installed on my phone?
On modaco fourms a while back, in a sense rom they said that was an option, i cant find the original thread for the life of me right now..

kyleblakepeters said:
Technically you could push an ASOP .apk of Contacts, but you would more than likely still default back to the Sense version anyway.
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I said it.

I still have not found an acceptable solution to this.
Im intending on giving this a full week, before I just return my phone.
I dont mind so much, if it doesnt straight up REPLACE my standard call/contacts/call log, if I can include the stock APK from AOSP 2.1, that runs coexsistant with the current setup, that will be fine.
Someone? Anyone? ill raise the price to $20 if someone can find me an acceptable solution.
Is it not possible for this to just turn into a simple app, like Dialer One basically remade the Sense dialer/contact lists into an app?

every single person that doesnt have htc smart dialer wants it, and you that have it wants to get rid of it, htc dialer > android dialer, sorry but you're truly being a big baby, just return the phone someone will make better use of it.

aLdaRiS said:
every single person that doesnt have htc smart dialer wants it, and you that have it wants to get rid of it, htc dialer > android dialer, sorry but you're truly being a big baby, just return the phone someone will make better use of it.
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ha, you sirrrr are out $20
You do realize, what Im asking isnt too far fetched.. considering this is a forum based off of doing things to the phone that were never originally intended for it right?
You just mad you dont have one? Who knows.
We dont need you, or your god damned negativity.
**** it. $40 on the table.

I already got my evo and don't need your chump change, I had a mytouch3g and a nexus one and always wanted to have the HTC smart dialer and now that I have it , I see a retard trying to get it off his phone, anyway on topic just wait till they root and release an eclair build or a froyo build.
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Really man just wait there will be roms where you can choose which dialer or contacts you want
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You , aldi, arent seeing the point here. So go play somewhere else
Stop wasting my ****ing time. You obviously dont know what is and isnt possible, and its that whole "oh just wait until its out" type of mentality that doesnt motivate anyone, to make things happen.
Please, jump out of this thread, and **** yourself.

Then do something about it get the phone apk from the nexus one dump and try to push it to the evo be creative you're just a retard trying to get things handed to you I don't see why a dev trying to get froyo on our device would stop doing that so just one guy could get Android dialer on his evo, you're just plain stupid really.
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Dude if I had time, I would, otherwise I wouldnt be offering money to people.
Devs that are working on Froyo, im not asking them to do anything different.
but there sure as hell are enough people on here, that have a better understanding of android coding than I currently do, and obviously im not the only person with an interest in this.
Please, im not intending to make this thread a argument between you and me.
Get something to say to me? Then message it, stop cluttering this ****.
I know $40 isnt even an hours worth a work when compared to the price I charge people for IT work, or hardware diagnostics.
If there has to be a higher price to make it happen, ill be paying it, Not you, and everyone else will benefit.
So stop crying about me wanting to put money into the hands of somebody that may need, or want the cash flow.

It's not the giving away money that bothers me its just the fact that you want to dumb down your phone that I cannot comprehend anyway good luck but like they said sense seems pretty deep into the OS so it might not be such an easy task
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Here's an UNTESTED thought:
I downloaded another Rom from the Hero forums that should have the AOSP dialer and yanked the phone.apk file from the v2.5.3 download (it should be attached below, there's a newer one up there too if you want to try that instead)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=663366
The idea is that if you install it and then press the phone button, it should prompt you for which dialer you want to use and if you select "Contacts", it should drop you into the AOSP dialer. You might need the "contact.apk" file as well on further research...but no harm in trying, right? If it fails, just uninstall and it should drop you back to normal.
If it works, I nominate the money goes to toast and/or flipz...because I love toast and flipz's work since my hero days.

HINT: NO SYSTEM RW ROOT AT THIS TIME, meaning until we get that you cant replace any of the system apps.
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Worth mentioning, is that I did pull the Contacts.apk, contactsstorage.apk, and Phone.apk, directly off my N1,
and while I tried to install all of them, in the end it doesn't allow it to happen.
this was a common knowledge move to me, as I assumed this wasn't going to work, before mrono and thecodemonk posted it.
I had to leave for the redbull air races before I could post that i tried directly that, to no avail.
but, the lack of System RW root, was the type of explanation i was looking for, as to why it didn't work.
thanks again, when we further this, Ill spread $ to the right directions, if not put some towards the proper Dev's now anyway.

If you root using toasts method and have rw permissions in recovery. Try this while in recovery
adb remount
adb push Phone.apk /system/app
Try a few different phone apks from nexus or cdma hero darchdroid or any other 2.1 AOSP rom.
Sometimes just installing apps wont work. And it should ask you to replace the htcdialer when pressing the phone icon. You dont have to have rw while in android for this to happen. Its something included in all android phones. Just like if you install a launcher from the market, you dont have rw permissions but it will still ask you if you want to switch launchers when you press home. If it doesnt ask then try to go to Setting>applications>manage apps> htcdialer and then see if you can select "clear default"
EDIT: im going to post an aosp phone.apk from an htc rom that that someone put together.
Try this View attachment Phone.apk

[Q] Help with voicemail and new ROM

For starters, HOLY HELL does this forum have the mother of all 'search ya n00b' features built in! Dang impressive!!
Second, being a long time stalker, and due to those previously mentioned features, I do not have the rights to post in the thread for this ROM. Thus I am posting my question here. I just recently installed the Incredibly Re-Engineered ROM v2.20 on my Inc. Out of all of the hacking that I have done to this poor phone, this ROM has given it the biggest improvement. However, I can't figure out how to access voicemails on it. The dev said that he fixed something with voicemails in this release but my not-so-smart-phone doesn't seem to know that.
I know that the Inc uses a native app instead of VZ's visual app and I am guessing that it's the one named Visual VM 1.13 that Titanium is telling me I am missing (but doesn't give me an option to restore). Anyone know the secret to getting this to work?

I'm not quite sure what you mean... Are you looking for a Visual Voicemail app, or are you unable to get to your voicemail at all? Have you tried dialing *86

Yeah, I could just call to get my messages but that would be too easy.
The issue is that the native app that downloads voicemails and plays them appears to be awol. When I get a voicemail VZ sends me a text stating "You have 1 unheard Visual Voice Mail messages. Please select the Visual VM icon to reinstall." However, you can't just download VZ's app because it will tell you that your phone already has an app built in for handling voicemails... except for my phone which now appears to be missing it.
Oh and before anyone asks, yes I did wipe the phone before installing the new ROM with ROM Manager.

Have you tried changing the voicemail settings to what you want to use to handle your voicemails? Menu > Settings > Call Settings
If you already have then maybe try pushing the apk through adb?

There is a flashover to 2.2 that is supposed to fix the VM indicator.
Absent that, there is also a flashable zip posted in the ROM and IncReEng. mods thread.
hth

g00s3y said:
Have you tried changing the voicemail settings to what you want to use to handle your voicemails? Menu > Settings > Call Settings
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I did not even know about that setting. I have now set it to 'My Carrier' since I am not using Google Voice but unfortunately that didn't fix it.
smtom said:
There is a flashover to 2.2 that is supposed to fix the VM indicator.
Absent that, there is also a flashable zip posted in the ROM and IncReEng. mods thread.
hth
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I did perform that flashover. Maybe I will wait until the updated ROM is posted tonight and see if that fixes it... otherwise I might have to go hunting for the zips you are referencing.

2wheel'r said:
I did not even know about that setting. I have now set it to 'My Carrier' since I am not using Google Voice but unfortunately that didn't fix it.
I did perform that flashover. Maybe I will wait until the updated ROM is posted tonight and see if that fixes it... otherwise I might have to go hunting for the zips you are referencing.
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You can click on the little paperclip next to the rom thread title and see all the .zip attachments that have been posted in the thread. This way you don't have to go searching through the whole thread to find the files you are looking for.

I just wanted to update this in case anyone else is searching for an answer to this problem.
So I did an update to v2.3 of the Re-Engineered ROM and that didn't get my voicemail back. And I actually lost some more functionality. I'm not in any way diss'n this ROM though. The issue is just that it is a seriously customized piece of art and maybe a bit overkill for a phone that needs to occasionally be a phone!
Since I tried Skyraider in the past and had some syncing issues, I decided to load up Redemptive rEVOlution this time. So far everything is running smooth and it appears that my voicemail and everything else is working as it should.
BTW, I should mention that I work in the Quality field because I have a natural gift for breaking things. So my issues may not be typical for all users.

I believe the problem you are having with VVM is because re-ingeneered is 100% evo framework. Sprint does not use VVM and therefore not coded for it.
That being said, google voice offers the same features without the added fees from Verizon.

MIUI SMS

anyway to get that apk file to work on other roms, Sense and or AOSP? i searched around and same people were asking same question as me but for the desire. they had no help in the thread (dated back in 2010)
What you guys think, is it possible to make it happen or is it too far fetched

I'm also having this problem with the miuimusic.apk and trying to install on synergy.
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Have you tried extracting the apk and pushing it via adb or root explorer? If I'm not mistaken miui is like sense in a way, some of the core apps won't function without the launcher and main components. I mean the music app and a few others will work on other roms but main apps like phone, setting, SMS, all need the miui framework to actually work. I could be wrong but that's why no one ever mentions it because they'd rather just run miui itself.
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dirkyd3rk said:
Have you tried extracting the apk and pushing it via adb or root explorer? If I'm not mistaken miui is like sense in a way, some of the core apps won't function without the launcher and main components. I mean the music app and a few others will work on other roms but main apps like phone, setting, SMS, all need the miui framework to actually work. I could be wrong but that's why no one ever mentions it because they'd rather just run miui itself.
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thats what i was going to do but wanted to know if anyone tried it before or if its even possible. i don't wanna wipe everything and switch to another rom and try it out and it don't work. but i guess ill just backup and give it a shot

Joey_UFC said:
thats what i was going to do but wanted to know if anyone tried it before or if its even possible. i don't wanna wipe everything and switch to another rom and try it out and it don't work. but i guess ill just backup and give it a shot
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Im sure many people have tried it but why run the sms app and not just the whole miui. It's just going to force close because its missing the other miui components. The sense mms.apk is the same way; it wont work without the HTC framework. Someone tried to get the miui sms apk working back when I had my cdma heroc and failed. Moral of the story: just run miui (which I hate lol).
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dirkyd3rk said:
Im sure many people have tried it but why run the sms app and not just the whole miui. It's just going to force close because its missing the other miui components. The sense mms.apk is the same way; it wont work without the HTC framework. Someone tried to get the miui sms apk working back when I had my cdma heroc and failed. Moral of the story: just run miui (which I hate lol).
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MIUI is the greatest rom ever built, stop your negativity PAUL.
Just sometimes need a change of scenery but love some MIUI components which is why i keep coming back.

Joey_UFC said:
MIUI is the greatest rom ever built, stop your negativity PAUL.
Just sometimes need a change of scenery but love some MIUI components which is why i keep coming back.
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Hahahaha wow this fool
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[Q] question for people running decks reloaded

I've been debating trying out Decks Reloaded ROM, the only other AOSP ROM I have tried was CM 7.1 and 7.2rc2. With both CM versions I had the phantom voice mail issue. Does Decks have the same problem or is that just a CM thing?

You need to clear your voicemail with sprint. That's the only way to get rid of it once and for all. Anyways, their should be a setting that hides the voicemail in the deck Rom.(I think all aosp roms Have this option) If you like decks Rom then try it out, you'll def like the reloaded series.
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Just moved to Reloaded last night and can confirm that I get no phanton voicemail txts. I've tried a ton of different roms over the past year, and this is one of the few where visual voicemail just works out of the box.
FYI, I still have voicemails in my inbox (old ones that don't show up in visual voicemail) so for me I didn't have to do anything to get voicemail working as it should. Your results may vary though, as typical with the phantom voicemail issue.
On a side note, this ROM is pretty amazing....I'm not a fan of the color scheme but functionally it's the quickest I've used, so incredibly responsive.

Hey thanks for the interest in ReLoaded! We included the VVM fix for the phantom messages. Nice huh?! By the way there is another aosp rom with the fix.... check my sig for KWIQ rom. I've neglected it since begining the ReLoaded project, but it will see a resurection here real soon...
-jamie

Google voice + Decks reloaded = winning combo.
I fought google voice at first but I love that I can flash any rom, install the app and all my voicemail is right there.
Plus as an added bonus, while I'm flashing or otherwise screwing around with my phone I can still see my voicemails and send/receive texts through voice.google.com
Big thanks to Jamie, rope, deck and everyone involved with this rom to put the effort in and fix the small things (like phantom vm) so we don't have to.

AOSP newcomer.
Hi guys. I'm pretty new to AOSP based Roms. I have mostly used Sense based roms and am bored with them. I am now using Deck's Reloaded .44 and Im loving it. I have had a couple hiccups here and there and have managed to find the answers to most of them through extensive searching and reading, but I'm stuck with a few questions.
Here is my setup:
EVO 4G
16GB Class 10 Sd Card
Using "default" mason kernal
dta2sd selected
Full Wipe, Superwipe, Ext 3 Partition
1. I can't send or download mms messages with wifi connected, but it works when data/3g is connected. Thoughts?
2.On reboots I would lose widgets and apps. I performed a2sd repair in terminal emulator, seems to have worked so far, but every time I reboot I lose dropbox login and am forced to log back in everytime. I have never had this happen before. I use KeePass so have very strong passwords that I can not remember, so this is a hassle. Anyway to have it stay logged in like I am used to with other ROMS?
3. The phone dialer threw me off before I realized that the auto predict dial does not work with this framework. Can anybody suggest a good 3rd party auto predict dialer that will work with Deck's and where I can find it?
Thanks devs for your dedication, ability, and time you commit to providing these amazing roms for us lacking these skills or the time to learn them.
This is the first time I have been Deck'ed and I like it! (No homo!!!)
C-Mo

C-Mo said:
Hi guys. I'm pretty new to AOSP based Roms. I have mostly used Sense based roms and am bored with them. I am now using Deck's Reloaded .44 and Im loving it. I have had a couple hiccups here and there and have managed to find the answers to most of them through extensive searching and reading, but I'm stuck with a few questions.
Here is my setup:
EVO 4G
16GB Class 10 Sd Card
Using "default" mason kernal
dta2sd selected
Full Wipe, Superwipe, Ext 3 Partition
1. I can't send or download mms messages with wifi connected, but it works when data/3g is connected. Thoughts?
2.On reboots I would lose widgets and apps. I performed a2sd repair in terminal emulator, seems to have worked so far, but every time I reboot I lose dropbox login and am forced to log back in everytime. I have never had this happen before. I use KeePass so have very strong passwords that I can not remember, so this is a hassle. Anyway to have it stay logged in like I am used to with other ROMS?
3. The phone dialer threw me off before I realized that the auto predict dial does not work with this framework. Can anybody suggest a good 3rd party auto predict dialer that will work with Deck's and where I can find it?
Thanks devs for your dedication, ability, and time you commit to providing these amazing roms for us lacking these skills or the time to learn them.
This is the first time I have been Deck'ed and I like it! (No homo!!!)
C-Mo
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I have probs with the native MMS, too on several AOSP ROMs, so I just use Go SMS. It's nice.
Go to Recovery\partition SD Card\Repair EXT Partition. That helped with mine, but eventually, it reverted back to losing apps/widgets on reboots. I know the team is aware. One thing, if you flashed A2SD in Aroma, is to not do that and then flash it manually
Use Contapps. Free in Play. Has killer contact list options and dialer (And SMS which I chose to not use)

HipKat said:
I have probs with the native MMS, too on several AOSP ROMs, so I just use Go SMS. It's nice.
Go to Recovery\partition SD Card\Repair EXT Partition. That helped with mine, but eventually, it reverted back to losing apps/widgets on reboots. I know the team is aware. One thing, if you flashed A2SD in Aroma, is to not do that and then flash it manually
Use Contapps. Free in Play. Has killer contact list options and dialer (And SMS which I chose to not use)
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Thanks HipKat, that is good to know. I will try the repair EXT partition. Stinks it only seemed to help temporarily. I did install a2sd in aroma, but did not do in again manually so I know im good there.
On reboot, I am now losing the theme entirely (those chosen from theme chooser) plus widgets and login syncs to apps such as FB and Dropbox. Also, many apps are missing and not showing in the app drawer. Ugh. Glad to hear the devs know about some of this.
Anyone else having these problems? Are people using partition ext 4 having these problems?
THanks again!!!

Please use the Q&A Forum for questions &
Read the Forum Rules Ref Posting
Thanks ✟
Moving to Q&A

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Please use the Q&A Forum for questions &
Read the Forum Rules Ref Posting
Thanks ✟
Moving to Q&A
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Hey lufc,
I thought that is what this was. It says Questions for those running Deck's reloaded and I found it under Q&A. What am I doing wrong?
THanks and sorry for being an xda posting noob.

C-Mo said:
Thanks HipKat, that is good to know. I will try the repair EXT partition. Stinks it only seemed to help temporarily. I did install a2sd in aroma, but did not do in again manually so I know im good there.
On reboot, I am now losing the theme entirely (those chosen from theme chooser) plus widgets and login syncs to apps such as FB and Dropbox. Also, many apps are missing and not showing in the app drawer. Ugh. Glad to hear the devs know about some of this.
Anyone else having these problems? Are people using partition ext 4 having these problems?
THanks again!!!
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When I first flashed ReLoaded, we saw that this problem existed and Jaime said to just not use A2SD in Aroma, but flash it manually. I never did do a reflash, but I might, just to see if that really works.

HipKat said:
When I first flashed ReLoaded, we saw that this problem existed and Jaime said to just not use A2SD in Aroma, but flash it manually. I never did do a reflash, but I might, just to see if that really works.
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That or just flash ReLoaded RLS, Dta2sd works brilliantly with full functionality and is still optional. If you experience any issues on Rls chances are you either changed busybox and are on 18-4, or have corrupted ext partitions.
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Anyway to install Verizon Visual Voicemail other than the play store version?

Rooted and flashed over to the Cyanogenmod (unofficial) release over in the Dev forum here, but I can't find an apk that will install correctly and the play store says my phone is not compatible. The Marshmallow Visual Voicemail seems to be the only thing I've found in this release that isn't working for me, too.
I'm wondering if anyone can provide an APK from their phone or something? Might just be out of luck until the dev in charge of the Note 4 Cyanogen is back or Verizon releases 6.0.1 for the Note 4. All the APKs (and a flashable zip or two) have been kinda old. Most of them would install but force close if you tried to open them.

daxp said:
Rooted and flashed over to the Cyanogenmod (unofficial) release over in the Dev forum here, but I can't find an apk that will install correctly and the play store says my phone is not compatible. The Marshmallow Visual Voicemail seems to be the only thing I've found in this release that isn't working for me, too.
I'm wondering if anyone can provide an APK from their phone or something? Might just be out of luck until the dev in charge of the Note 4 Cyanogen is back or Verizon releases 6.0.1 for the Note 4. All the APKs (and a flashable zip or two) have been kinda old. Most of them would install but force close if you tried to open them.
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Start here with post # 577...hope one of these works for you.

mexigga said:
Start here with post # 577...hope one of these works for you.
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There's some promising stuff there. Frustratingly someone claims to have it working on AOSP, like CM, but the link 404s. I'll edit this post if I find something that works in case anyone else looks here. Thank you!
Edit: Nope, none of it seemed to work; it still just FCs when I open it. Oddly, I can't uninstall the app now even after undoing the build.prop changes. Oh well, if it causes problems I can wipe and reflash later.

daxp said:
There's some promising stuff there. Frustratingly someone claims to have it working on AOSP, like CM, but the link 404s. I'll edit this post if I find something that works in case anyone else looks here. Thank you!
Edit: Nope, none of it seemed to work; it still just FCs when I open it. Oddly, I can't uninstall the app now even after undoing the build.prop changes. Oh well, if it causes problems I can wipe and reflash later.
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Well that sucks.
I have a few roms that im going to pull apart and see how they got the VZ V VM app working...

mexigga said:
Well that sucks.
I have a few roms that im going to pull apart and see how they got the VZ V VM app working...
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No success thus far... anyone have any ideas? I am using google voice at the moment but actually preferred the vvm app.

I've am recently trying out PF voice mail and its fine so far
New solution if you want notifications for voice mail. . I went into the Verizon app (account ) and changed my voice mail settings to basic voice mail and ,,,,,, boom now I get notified of voice mail [emoji1]
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